User:Djflem/Mary Jacobs

Mary Jacobs is New jersey Superior Court sitting at. Mercer County Courthouse in Trenton, the state capital and county seat. She became assignment judge in 2012. She has sat on som of the most controversial cases in the state.

Background education, early career
Jacobson grew up in Bayonne, Nw Jersey. She's is a 1974 graduate of Smith College and a 1978 graduate of New York University School of Law, She is married to business lawyer James Laskey and has three children. From 1979 to 2001, she served in the state Attorney General's Office as a deputy assistant attorney general and an assistant attorney general. Before that, she was law clerk to Samuel Larner, judge of the Appellate Division, according to state judiciary spokeswomen.

Appointments
In 2001, Jacobson was appointed to the bench by Gov. Christie Whitman, in the civil division in the Essex Vicinage. She moved to the general equity division. and then, several months later, to the Mercer Vicinage, hearing civil and family cases. She served as presiding judge of the family division from 2009 to 2010, when she was named presiding judge of general equity in the Mercer Vicinage.

Council on Affordable Housing
http://www.law360.com/articles/468461/nj-affordable-housing-panel-should-meet-monthly-judge-told

Same sex marriage
On September 27, 2013, Jacobson, granting summary judgement to the plaintiffs, ruled that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry. Unless a higher court rules otherwise, or grants a stay, the effective date of Judge Jacobson's order legalizing same-sex marriage in New Jersey is October 21, 2013.

Executive Protection Unit
A lawsuit which claimed that Christie "inappropriately forced New Jersey taxpayers to cover the cost of the governor's security and other key expenses while pursuing the presidency" was dismissed.